A major shift is underway in healthcare around the world, due at least in part to the attention that population ageing and its anticipated impacts is demanding.

The Central Queensland University published electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI) http://www.ejhi.net/ has recognised the emergence of this growing field and has produced a special issue on aged care informatics.

Current developments and a vision for the future are presented, addressing issues such as pressures on hospital services, shortages of carers and increasing consumer demand balanced by an increasing availability of assistive technologies to support care delivery, particularly in home settings.

eJHI is an international journal committed to scholarly excellence and dedicated to the advancement of Health Informatics and information technology in healthcare. eJHI is a truly open access journal - it provides open access both for authors (no publication fee or page charges) and for readers (free access to all papers).

eJHI is the official journal of HISA - Health Informatics Society of Australia (http://www.hisa.org.au/) and the ACHI - Australian College of Health Informatics (http://www.achi.org.au/).

The journal is published by the Central Queensland University's Health Informatics Research Group.

CQU's Professor Evelyn Hovenga is Editor-in-Chief of the journal, while CQU's Dr Sebastian Garde is Managing Editor.

This special issue of eJHI is guest-edited by :

• Dr Jeffrey Soar, Associate Professor, Information Systems, Director, Collaboration for Ageing and Aged Care
  Informatics Research (CAAIR), University of Southern Queensland, Australia
• Dr Moya Conrick, RN, RM, DipAppSc, BN, MClEd, PhD
  Griffith University, Australia
• Mark Barnett, KM Group, Australia.